The most important battle in politics today is the one within the Republican Party, and the tea party movement didn't start it. The GOP's civil war began in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt made progressivism the governing philosophy of the Republican...

Barack Obama's 949-word response on Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality. It began with a complaint about negative coverage on Fox...

Murray Weidenbaum taught students at Washington University in St. Louis and presidents in the White House that government should get out of the way and let people and businesses work as hard as they can to achieve as much as they can.
He preached...

President Obama's appearance on the Funny or Die sketch series "Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis" on Tuesday has become a viral sensation, with over 14 million views already. But not everyone is laughing, especially Stephen Colbert.
On Wednesday night's "The Colbert Report," Colbert rounded up those who had a real beef with the leader of the free world doing a comedy sketch to drum up registration on the Healthcare.gov website. Not surprisingly, those pundits mostly existed on Fox News and...

WASHINGTON -- In a nod to bipartisan tradition and St. Patrick, President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) donned emerald ties to hear (and sing) a bit of Irish folk music during a Capitol Hill luncheon with Ireland's prime minister.
It's customary for Ireland's leader to visit the United States ahead of St. Patrick's Day and present the president with a bowl of shamrocks, a tradition dating back to President Truman. Obama met with Prime Minister Enda Kenny in the Oval Office on Friday...

Mary Soames, the last surviving child of British World War II leader Winston Churchill, has died at her London home. She was 91.
Her son Nicholas Soames said she died Saturday after a short illness.
Soames wrote several books that provided an affectionate yet unsparing vision of her volatile, brilliant father and an intimate view of one of England's most prominent families.
"It's not my fault if my grandfather died of syphilis or my fault if my grandmother was very extravagant and liked marrying...

As a show of appreciation, a thank-you note simply wouldn't do.
U.S. Navy Lt. Jon Weissberg, fresh from deployment aboard the USS Harry S. Truman in the Middle East, was determined to do something more. So he returned to Mariner's Christian School in Costa Mesa, where his military journey began years before.
The 2002 graduate of the school wanted to show just how much his shipmates really enjoyed the phone cards and care packages that the students had sent to the aircraft carrier after they "adopted"...

Sunday, April 27
Veterans event VFW Post 160 in Glen Burnie will host a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans event from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with music by Jerry and the Heartaches.
Monday, April 28
Photo club The Digital Photography Club of Annapolis meets at 7 p.m. at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Wayne Bierbaum will make a presentation on "Bird Photography." Information: 410-267-0461 or digitalphotoclub.net.
Wednesday, April 30
Flower mart The Four Rivers Garden Club will...

When Republicans in Congress complained about his relentless attacks on their record, reporters dubbed President Truman "Give 'em Hell Harry." To which Truman fired back: "I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell!"
That same truth-telling applies today to Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) surreal response to the impeachment hysteria gripping Washington these days. He insists Democrats are giving him hell, when all they're doing is telling the truth.
The speaker...